Oh god, I thought I was the only one who had those dreams!

I know that a line has to be drawn somewhere, but my secret wish is that Murphy just keeps casting people until he’s basically replicated the whole of classic Hollywood.

It makes me sad to think that when black people were treated like this under apartheid, South Africa became a pariah state subject to economic boycotts and vocal condemnation from the international community.

I don’t know, you guys. It’s getting a bit like Doctor Who, where I feel like they’re writing it for Tumblr, with Sherlock as a gif-able woobie rather than the badass detective he was in the first series. Too much hurt-comfort fodder going on, gives me painful flashbacks to my teenage fanfiction career.

Haha yes, it was playing in French cinemas around the same time I went to see Anna Faris/Chris Evans vehicle What’s Your Number - or as they called it, Sex List.

She seems fabulous, even if she played one of cinema’s most annoying characters.

It was! Boublil and Schonberg created it as a concept album though, and it didn’t really take off as a stage production until Cameron Mackintosh took it to London, although it has since been back in France as a stage show. Les Mis is probably one of the most global musicals, if not the most, maybe spurred by the fact…

I suppose in continental Europe, there’s also the lack of a strong musical tradition. Not sure on the situation in Sweden, but certainly when I lived in France and Italy, there was no culture of musicals, no equivalent ‘musical district’ like the West End etc. Major musicals tend to get a tour (I saw Mamma Mia in…

Yes, I think Hamilton had something to say about American history and the ways POC have been erased from the narrative and reclaiming history etc etc. that transcended the theatre. It’s unlikely to do the same here.

As a Hamilton-obsessed Londoner, so am I! The hype has only reached the fringes of the UK so far - really only theatre fans or people who are very into what’s happening in US culture seem to be aware of Hamilton (luckily a few friends of mine fall into one or both of those niches).

Her relationship with Laura was really realistic, too. Laura was clearly the pretty, popular one and she would kind of step all over Millie sometimes, but obviously loved her. Usually shows either gloss over those power differentials or else they make the pretty one a total mean bitch.

Millie was probably my favourite character on The Dick van Dyke Show. Her delivery was just superb.

If that happened in 2002, wouldn’t that make Meeks 16 at the time as well? Not that it makes it ok to beat someone up, but also not a grown man whaling on a kid.

I can sort of understand why someone might believe reports that an attack happened and then the next day some people in a Muslim nation celebrated in the streets.

The crazy thing is that going by her statement she appears to be more religious than the average teen. What a bizarre hill for the aforementioned ‘crusty old shits’ to die on.

Maybe he’d taken a Benbenzedrine.

Aren’t almost all 8-year-olds in the ‘straight up and down category’, body-wise? Knowing which styles flatter your shape (ideally sans shaming) is a valuable fashion lesson - but jeez, let them get a friggin’ shape first.

Her mother sounds absolutely toxic, clearly a Mama Rose gone off the boil. While it must hurt to be publicly lambasted by one’s own mother that way, at least Ariel has the consolation that it lets everyone see who’s the crazy one.

If anything, it’s even better because they CAN’T FIGHT BACK and you’re automatically the winner!

I read an article a few years back, maybe in the NYT, about restaurants in maybe Jordan or the Palestinian territories which operate with shutters over the windows during Ramadan so you can sneak in and stuff your face without being seen. The only way someone would see you was if they were there too, so you’ve both…